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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
The Fall semester ends as colorful as it should...
Running neck to neck with tight schedules and strict time lines, amidst challenging course work, technical seminars and student workshops; our fall semester finally comes to an end.Foundations of Software Engineering was a special course designed for specific requirements like team roles and project practices. Apart from trying new technologies, we also learned how to be an effective team player, efficient developer and constructive critic; all that takes to succeed as a team.
Avoiding Software Project Failures and Metrics for Software Engineers were other courses that help us as software engineers to study, understand, devise and propose the solutions to the problems posed in the coursework. We studied different samples and we invented possible solutions for them. In most cases, the problems were recurring software discrepancies and unavoidable crisis situations in software projects. The solutions we presented aimed to either solve the problem or reduce the accountability to loss if the problem persists. Both of these courses were real examples of the Carnegie Mellon learning-by-doing methodology – as students, we really saw the principle behind all the courses in this discipline here.
My semester was also spent doing much reseach, as a Research Assistant. For those who are interested in trying their hand in mobile software development, there are a number of opportunities. There are many research projects here for students to choose from ranging from mobile haptics to mobile meeting arrangers. “Smart spaces” is another research area where the faculty are developing intelligent senior monitoring systems.
Lastly, I spent my free time attending a number of workshops and special speaker engagements. We have some good technical seminars from different people in the industry, workshops on technologies like Ruby on Rails, Rho Mobile for mobile web development (development in Rails). Also non-technical resume writing workshops like effective resume writing and how resumes could be improved to make them reflect your skills and personality.
This is the right place to be, if you are looking out for something challenging and intuitive.
posted by Sumalatha Komarraju @ 11:20 AM
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These students have good insights to share and are well inclined to their fields. Why not market their resume portfolios for free. Visit http://www.nuresume.com and let recruiters looking for passionate students like them get the chance to find them!
Now that you have completed your graduation. Please tell us where are you working and also put some light on the placements for Master's in Software Engineering, Technical Track graduates offered by CMU. Further elaborate on the % of students who actually get placed.
Hello Suma
My name is Aashima Madaan. I am from India and have completed my Bachelors in 2011. I got an admit in SE Full time Technical Track. I wanted to ask some queries regarding the program. I would really appreciate your help. Thank you.
My mail is aashima2madaan@gmail.com